Miami Hurricane, October 27, 1967

              Kennedys Give
By STUART JASPER
Hwrricwi* Anoci*l* C Alter
UM has been awarded a half million dollar grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation for the construction and support of a new Child Development Center, costing approximately $5 million, for the study of mental retardation and aberrant human development.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.), President of the research foundation, is to
arrive on campus to announce the gift this morning at 11 a m. in the Righter Library’s Brockway Lecture Hall.
Kennedy will challenge Florida philanthropists to follow his lead and contribute an additional amount approximating $1 million so that UM will he aide to mateh a U.S. Public Health Service grant of *3,054,429 awarded to the University November I960 under a 3-1 matching fund proposition.
The grant itself is divided into two parts. $.'$00,000 is
slated for construction; $200.-000 is scheduled for professional development, payable in four yearly payments of $50,000 each.
Negotiations were completed last Monday night at a meeting between UM President Henry King Stanford and Senator Ted Kennedy and Eunice Shriver in Washington, D.C. Stanford flew there Monday afternoon and w'as back at his desk in the Ashe Building by Tuesday noon.
To be located at ltlth Ter-
race and 12th Avenue N\V the entrance to the .Mrdi< complex in downtown Mian the new Medical School a<C June! will Im> constructed on land valued at XOO.OOO dollars. The Dade County Commission voted to lease the lots to I’M last Septeml>er IH at the nominal rental of *1 for five years. <'onstruetion will begin in January of I9k9 and occupancy is expected in January of 1970.
The prime purpose of the Center is to train professionals in a multi-disciplinary,
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Students Protest Poor Food
The flyer said “Hate the board plan? Well, do something about it." Two hundred people met on Wednesday to do that.
Dennis Richard, President of USG, opened the meeting by requesting that those who w'ere satisfied with the board plan leave. No one left. The
students first made a list of lengthy grievances against the cafeteria service. Those present appeared lighthearted but sincere in their disappro-
val of the service provided by the school cafeterias.
Before marching u|>on the main cafeteria In the Student Union, the students decided that if things had not changed by their next meeting in three weeks, two consequences w’ere left. They w’ould ‘eat in’ at the cafeterias and consume as much food as possible or boycott Che cafeteria in an 'eat out.' Either way, the purpose W’as to cause the food service to loose money.
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ector out ho Centerfwill be UftrTJMiwQyjian Dr.fcam Giammona ScienTTHMiierctor of tlie Medical School’s Child Development Center.
Poverty Corps Director, Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy Foundation'* Executive Director, personally conducted negotiation* with the UM about the Center, but was not expected to I«* here tor the formal announcement today.
Dr. Giammona said that UM had been successfully “com-l>efing with many top-notch universities.” UM is one of only 14 universities that have been awarded U.S. Public Health Service grants for construction of mental retardation centers.
The operating staff and directors of the new’ center are also those Dr. Giammona cited as greatly responsible for the University getting the Kennedy grant and the Public Health Service grant. They include Dr. William Nyhen, Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics; Dr. Robert M. Allen, Professor of psychology; Dr. De Forest Strunk, Assistant Professor of S[iecial Education; Miss Frances Mac-Graph, Director of Social Work and Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Dr. Carol Shear, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; and Miss Marjorie Martin, Director of Nursing and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.
Expected lo In- at llie announcement are U.S. C o n-gressinan Dante J'ascell, Slate Senator Eddie Gong, and Senator George Smalhcr* may arrive late just lo pick up the Kennedy*.
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Student* present Hoard Plan grievances lo LISfi President Dennis
Hicliard at Wednesday afternoon meeting.
First Forum Features Stanford
By NANCY HANDLER Hurricane Stan Writer
If you have any questions concerning University of Miami policies and rules, then come to the first University Forum on Wednesday, October 30 in the Whitten Union and ask President Henry King Stanford and his cabinet.
The Forum was established last year to provide a means for expression of student opinion on controversial issues. Students may come to the Forum and direct questions to the certain administrators who are directly responsible for the policies of UM.
Dr. William R. Butler, Vice-president of Student Affairs, will lie present. Question* concerning student conduct rules, the Health Center,
Residence halls, admissions, or financial aid will he in Dr. Butler’s general area of responsibility.
Dr. Armin H. Gropp, Vice-president of Academic Affairs, will he present to answer questions concerning the faculty, curriculum, deans, or faculty senate.
To answer questions aiwut the food, tuition, parking, police, Master Plan, or physical plant will be Mr. Eugene E. Cohen.
Questions concerning public relations, fund raising, olum-iii. and News Bureau should be directed to Mr. Charles Estill, Vice-president of Development.
Questions likely to be raised concern the parking problem and the Board Plan.
Questions pertaining to the Student Rules Revision Committee are expected to be asked. Will women bo allowed in the living area of fraternities?
Is the University going to IK-rmit students over 21 to have liquor on campus? What can students do about incompetent teachers?
If the large lecture classes In the Unlversllv College are disronttmied. where are they going to put all the student*?
Students are undoubtedly expected to question the September tuition hike. How will the $2,/* million in new revenue be .spent?
One nf the most controversial Issue* faring university rampuse* arross the nation I* whether or not contraceptive*
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The Direr tar of the newly xpanded Child Development Center, Dr. Sam Giammona. was the last source to be contacted by the Hurricane, yet provided the clearest insight into the uniqueness of Miami’s center in an interview Wednesday afternoon.
Dr. Giammona begun by tracing the evolution of the center from the work of psychologist Dr. Robert M. Allen in the 1940’s in training of specialists for the treatment of mental retardation to the start of the Development Evaluation Clinic, w’hlch had limited diagnostic facilities.
To co-ordinate the various programs of the clinic the Child Development Center was organized in 1965.
The unity and the continual expansion of the multi-disciplinary- professional training program helped UM get the Kennedy grant.
Because of the lack of professionals trained to treat the mentally retarded, the Kennedy grants have been mainly limited to universities. “Unlversifies are best equipped to train professionals. This is especially true at UM, since we really have the whole university involved.”
“We are probably one of the few universities in which the total university is involved. Our program has
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allowed all of the appropriate university disciplines to work on the program."
Included are the departments of psychology, in the College of Arts and Sciences, special education In the School of Education, [x-dia-tries in the School of Medicine, social work at Barry College and Florida State University, and the Floi ida Health Department.
“That's unique. A lot of schools are stifled with their
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EUNICE SlllUVEIt
SEW IOR KENNEDY
The Joseph I*. Kennedy Jr. Foundation is a research foundation and their purpose is to deal with problems on mental retardation and neurological handicaps.
Sargent Shriver has been Executive Director, and Eunice Shriver, a Vice-resident of the Foundation.
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Press
Freedom
Tested
• Publicity control has been a liehind the scenes battle revolving around the publication and announcement of the Kennedy grant. A press release of tlie grant and its announcement became the basis of i dispute between the Hurricane Editor and Associate Editor on one side and a rnemlx*r of the Student Board of Publications on the other.
The hoard member warned student editors Larry Mans und Stuart Jasper to withhold the story until ufter 11 a.m. tills morning. Tlie two editor* were threatened with prosecution and possible dismissal before the Student I’ublications Board If the story was released today.
Disagreement was basically tho question of breaking a news release "hold.” The editors maintained that no release had been formally sent to the Hurricane or any media and, further that ail the information had been uncovered by the Hurrieanp. Believing that no harm could come to the university, they printed it on this date.
Opposition to printing the Kennedy grant story wa* based on the belief that a release time was being broken and possible undesirable repercussions might be felt by the university.